What Are The Best Science Fiction Novels?
Then, I will interpret "compulsory reading" as the most recommended books for their high overall quality and enjoyment factor for science fiction fans; For this last group, I will exclude the titles mentioned in the first group, to provide two different lists.
[Note: I am watching "science fiction" because it does not include works that are really "fantasy" or that are mostly dramas that develop at a future point with no real element of "science" involved.]
SCI-FI "MUST READ" FOR IMPORTANT WORKS:
It is particularly relevant insofar as it has become so entrenched in our society that even those who have never read it will instantly understand references to something like "Orwellian" or "Big Brother" or "double talk," etc.
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War of the Worlds, by HG Wells, is the first science fiction novel about an alien invasion of our planet, and most of the subsequent stories of alien invasion in the past 100 years have tended to reflect this original narrative in the minus some ways.
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Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, the greatest work of fiction on censorship and the role of the media as a voluntary facilitator in determining the population to resist thinking and censor itself of existence by abolishing thought and intellectualism.
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2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke, was an instant science fiction legend, an epic story about human origins and technology. It is also highly predictive of the technologies that would happen, and established (unintentionally, at first) a brilliant series of novels that expand history.
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Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is considered by many to be the first real science fiction because it was the first true novel of the genre. It is also important because the novelized genre began with, in fact, one of the most popular subgenre incarnations: the mix of horror / monsters and science fiction.
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SCI-FI "MUST READ" FOR LARGE ADDITIONAL WORKS:
Reunion with Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke, is one of the best science fiction stories ever written, probably Clarke's best work, and to this day it is still relevant and realistic along with attempts to represent how it could really be The future and the alien life. And once again, Clarke inspires modern and real scientific developments and technologies.
We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, predate the previous Orwell novel and include satire and extravagant extremes to express their points sometimes, but it is quite ingenious and wonderful as the first true work that imagines a post-apocalyptic totalitarian state that erases individuality, using the technology to achieve it. Your conquest and keep order.
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Foundation, by Isaac Asimov, is so big and extensive, so detailed and so fun to read, it's like the Lord of the Rings of science fiction, only bigger, if you can believe that. Try nothing less than to describe and represent the fall of a galactic empire and preparations for the emergence of a new empire.
This series, if seen in expanded form to encompass the other parallel works of Asimov that he later incorporated to create a unique mass universe, should be understood to include the I collection, Robot, as well as his works of the Galactic Empire.
Contact, by Carl Sagan (astronomer, author), is one of the greatest and most realistic representations of what it really will be if and when humanity finally comes into contact with intelligent life in other parts of the known universe.
Science fiction fans are always looking for books that really capture an intensely realistic representation answering our question: "What would it really be like if (and hopefully) when an intelligent alien species contacts us?" And this is one of the best books that answers that question.
I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson, gave birth to the modern fiction of the zombie apocalypse (although in the book, the walking dead are vampires) and the idea of the solitary survival character who searches for supplies and weapons while fighting the beasts.
It is incredible attention to the intense scientific details, related to blood and viruses and the possible causes and cures of vampires, not to mention the increasingly dictatorial government that desperately struggles to stop the outbreaks until finally the world is invaded.
ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Some works excluded from the above, but that deserve at least some mention, include ...
Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the best early exams of environmental concerns in the genre, and an epic story with a very interesting review of religion as well.
Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is probably the best mix of science fiction and open humor and parody, and definitely some of the most creative imaginations of science and outer space.
Androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick, although possibly not his best personal brand, in my opinion he is the most deeply human in his exploration of what constitutes "humanity" and "conscience", as well as our moral obligations derived not only from our understanding of these things, but it arises automatically from the mere fact of contemplating them in the first place.
To recognize the consideration of what these concepts "mean" is to admit a moral imperative to understand and apply them, and the fact that they are things we cannot always be sure of.
This novel, better than any other by Dick (including Ubik and his mad fusion of human perception and what it means to even perceive from one state of consciousness to the next) addresses these issues with tenderness and bittersweet appreciation for the fragility of "humanity" .
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is difficult to put on a science fiction list since Atwood herself strongly rejected the label, insisting that her work is speculative fiction, since it really lacks much science or technology that does not yet surround us.
The hypotheses of history are about social structure and governance, about gender roles and laws, not about "science" and technology. Still, many other stories fall under science fiction that really don't have much to do with science and technology per se: most apocalyptic fiction is based on considerations of survival within a post-nuclear / germinal landscape, and You could also say to be speculative instead of science fiction.
Despite Atwood's objections, this is an important work to be the first to analyze totalitarianism from the perspective of the groups that would probably be among the most attacked and oppressed in a dictatorial far-right society. He also won the first prize Arthur C. Clarke.
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